Description: This course will introduce the library manager to budgets and financial management as applied to the library and information center environment. Topics include budget creation, budget time line, budget tracking, budget components, budget revision, and the importance of the budget in strategic planning and management of a library system. This course is approved for the voluntary post-MLS certification program for public librarians through the American Library Association.

Description: This course will introduce the library manager to fundraising and grantwriting for librarians. Topics include alternative fundraising through library foundations, friends of libraries, trusts and wills, endowments, gifts and donations, volunteers, and partnerships; as well as grant writing to include grant sources, compliance, reporting, and evaluation. This course is approved for the voluntary post-MLS certification program for public librarians through the American Library Association.

Description: This course will introduce the library manager to facility management and maintenance as applied to the library and information center environment. Topics include building construction, renovation and remodeling, maintenance, leasing/renting, utilities, and security and safety issues. This course is approved for the voluntary post-MLS certification program for public librarians through the American Library Association.

Description: Would you like to earn outstanding online professional certificates in as little as one academic year? The Volunteer & Community Resource Management Certificates are designed for professionals and students who want to add a competitive edge to their careers through specialized training in volunteer management, leadership, community asset mapping, program planning and evaluation from an accredited University.

Description: This course offers an introduction to methods and limitations of educational research. Students explore the procedures, strengths, and limitations of the research process through learning experiences with various quantitative and qualitative designs, mixed method research models, sampling procedures, threats to study validity, and formally developing a basic research proposal.

Description: This course is designed as an initial Master's level statistics course, with an emphasis on understanding the meaning and utility of data analysis methods. The course includes descriptive and inferential statistical concepts and techniques commonly used in educational research, with applied learning experiences in the orgranization of data, graphical representation, measures of central tendency and variability, normal distribution curve, sampling theory and tests of significance between samples.

Description: The Certificate in Gifted Education is for individuals interested in gifted children and educational development. The courses include: Nature and Needs of the Gifted and Talented; Social and Emotional Aspects of the Gifted and Talented; Planning Processes for Teaching Gifted Education, and Methods and Curriculum for Gifted and Talented Education. The certification classes address specific aspects used in Educational Psychology and Special Education with gifted emphasis.

Description: The University of North Texas School of Library and Information Sciences has developed a series of online continuing education tutorials. Library Education @ Desktop courses meet an urgent need in the library community and offer these high-quality, Internet-delivered instructional options, that are so economical you can train 100% of your staff! The course topics include: Radio Frequency ID: Security Tracking Devices/ Reaching Teenagers/ Grant Writing Basics/ Info-Age Etiquette/ Harnessing the Internet/ Providing Excellent Customer Service in a Multicultural Environment/ Library Privacy and Confidentiality:Law and Policy/ Volunteers: Recruitment, Development and Supervision/ How to be an Effective Library Trustee or Board Member/ Copyright Basics for Libraries/ Improving Co-Worker Relationships/ Using Databases/ Managing Difficult Patrons with Confidence/ Presentation Skills for Librarians/ Library Retailing Techniques/ Capturing History: Basics of Library Digitization Projects/ Nutritional Information Resources for Libraries

Description: The Multiracial Family course is the academic study of dynamics found in multiracial families. Important concepts in race/ethnicity studies such as assimilation, racial identity and pluralism are explored. Other topics outlined include passing, one-drop rule, interracial dating/marriage, bi- or multiracial identity and transracial adoption.